IG: Comey used personal email account for FBI business

The report contains several examples of the usage, including times Comey sent himself drafts of a testimony he planned to deliver to Congress and drafts of bureauwide updates he planned to send to mark milestones during the year.Read more ...

DOJ watchdog blasts Comey for claiming Clinton's server could have been hacked

Former FBI Director James Comey should not have suggested that hackers could have compromised Hillary Clinton's private email server, the Justice Department's inspector general said in a report published today. In his July 5, 2016, statement on the FBI's investigation into the server that Clinton used while secretary of state, Comey said it was “possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail account.” The DOJ IG report blasted Comey for this statement, saying he “insinuated that hostile foreign actors may have in fact gained access to former Secretary...Read more ...

Watchdog dings Comey's Gmail use

Former FBI Director James Comey used a personal email account to conduct some government business, according to a critical government watchdog report released Thursday. A new report from the Justice Department inspector general cites five specific instances in which Comey used his personal Gmail for his work with the FBI. The department's IG was tasked with broadly reviewing the FBI's handling of its probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email account while she served as secretary of State, as well as allegations of bias in the bureau. "We found that... Comey's use of a personal...Read more ...

The Inspector General's most damning conclusions about how Comey helped throw the election to Trump

Irony is a cruel mistress, who gazes down upon the United States and mocks our pain.
IG found that on numerous occasions, COMEY used a personal GMail account to conduct official FBI business, according to source briefed on the report.
- Kyle Cheney June 14, 2018
In case you were asleep in 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey made a series of public statements that almost certainly cost former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton the presidency. In violation of longstanding Justice Department policy , Comey made highly critical public statements about Clinton, accused her of “extremely...Read more ...